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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"welfare reform"”.
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Welfare reform: Politics, policy and the courts
Welfare Reform: Politics, Policy and The Courts is a detailed analysis of welfare reform as directed by Congress in the Personal Responsibility Act of 1996. The thesis entails the following: an analysis of the historical factors that have led to legislative reform of the US welfare policy; an …
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Welfare Reform: The Politics of Redistributive Policy
… a factor in hindering women from leaving the welfare system. My interest in this topic came from Dr. Kostarelos seminar in the Capstone Course which was entitled “Poverty in our Midst in Cook County, Illinois.”</p>
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An Assessment of Federal Welfare Reform Policy in Texas
… United States through an examination of public welfare reform policies. Born from the need for national fiscal constraints, welfare reform has been fueled by public opinion concerned with a variety of social disorders, a strong national conservative trend, and political considerations. In Texas, …
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Family Cap Programs: The Future of Pennsylvania Welfare Reform
Welfare reform has been a highly debated topic since before the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) and continues to be at the forefront of many policy makers' agendas. Although significant positive changes have occurred in welfare policy since PRWORA's …
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The Conscience of Poverty: Rhetoric, Phenomenology, and Work in Contemporary Welfare Reform Debates
… Opportunity Reconciliation Act (better known as Welfare Reform), I provide a history of welfare and poverty rhetorics in the Unites States, before turning to analysis of the contemporary welfare debates. Two theoretical perspectives aid in this analysis: Michael Calvin McGee's ideograph, and the …
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Redefining Responsibility: Welfare Reform, Low-Income African American Mothers, and Children with Disabilities
Mothers of children with disabilities face a variety of problems compared to other mothers, but their experiences are not universal. This thesis provides a critical analysis of caregiving and disability by examining the experiences of a group of low-income African American mothers with children …
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Essays on Welfare Reform and Child Support Enforcement: Evidence From State Administrative Data
Since 1996 welfare reform proclaimed a substantial cutback in welfare benefits, state-initiated child support enforcement has gained increasing attention as a policy alternative for the poor single-parent households. This dissertation assesses the effect of child support enforcement on low-income …
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The roots of welfare reform: "the social forces underlying the Wisconsin Learnfare Program"
Two sets of theories are used sequentially in the analysis of the policymaking behind Learnfare. The first series consIsts of theories of the overall pollcymaking process, and includes the rational comprehensive, incrementalist, and two models of "organized anarchy" including the "garbage can" and …
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Essays on public policy and consumer choice : applications to welfare reform and state lotteries
… policies, in particular, state lotteries and the welfare "family cap." Despite considerable controversy surrounding the use of state lotteries as a means of public finance, little is known about their consumer consequences. Chapter one investigates two central questions about state lotteries and …
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Welfare Reform: Employers' Perceptions of Factors Associated with Virginia's Initiative for Employment Not Welfare
Welfare reform has been an issue in America for many years. The need to make positive changes to the welfare system escalated to the point that federal legislation was passed in 1996. This legislation mandated that each state establish welfare-to-work programs and require that welfare recipients …
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The Differential Impact of Welfare Reform in Non-metropolitan and Metropolitan Areas of Virginia
… a leader in the design and implementation of welfare reform measures. State welfare reforms were enacted in 1996 and federal reforms followed shortly after in 1996. Initial decreases in program caseloads and the movement of former recipients from unemployment to employment have led initial …
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Foucault, Rogerian argument, and feminist standpoint theory: intersecting discourses concerning welfare reform during the 1990s
… poverty, and the history of American social welfare laws; in depth social science studies of welfare organizations and methods; and the more recent feminist analysis of women and social welfare, there is limited rhetorical analysis of the language of welfare legislation, the surrounding …
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Retention of substance abuse outpatients: The role of psychiatric comorbidity in the era of welfare reform.
… role of psychiatric comorbidity in the era of welfare reform.
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The Creation and Illustration of Quality of Life: A Conceptual Model for Examining Welfare Reform Impacts
… the "success" of the latest version of welfare reform, codified into law in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. Most often, success is defined in terms of declining caseloads or in some other economic form - a practice that does not provide a true …
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Work, poverty and welfare reform: welfare-to-work programmes for lone parents in depressed local labour markets
This dissertation examines the impact of welfare reform on the work and poverty of lone parents living on welfare in depressed local labour markets. It uses a comparative approach to compare supply-side welfare-to-work programmes in Sheffield, UK and Buffalo, USA, and draws on current debates in …
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Social policy evaluation: How did the 1996 Welfare Reform Legislation influence unmarried Teen Birth rates in Texas Counties
Implementation of the 1996 Welfare Reform Legislation radically changed a 61-year-old policy of providing welfare benefits to eligible low-income mothers and their children. Despite a lack of evidence, current welfare policies are being implemented based on the belief that welfare restrictions and …
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Child Care on the Cheap: Welfare Reform and the Social Organization of Child Care Work in New York City
… to further a feminist political economy of urban welfare regimes, applying a gender lens to processes of urban neoliberalization and an urban lens to feminist political economy analyses of welfare state restructuring and resistance. In New York City, neoliberal welfare reform dramatically …
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Child Care Subsidy Policy After the 1996 Federal Welfare Reform: A Case Study of State Policy Formation in Illinois
With the repeal of federal programs by the 1996 welfare reform law (PL 104-193), state governments have been given new responsibility for creating child care subsidy (CCS) policy. This study examines the CCS policy-formation process in Illinois, analyzing the influence of several key factors on …
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